CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

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Richard Santos said:
A further thought on the row of windows depicted on the back of the island. Photos of the island shows there are boiler room air intake vents on both sides of the island, outboard of boiler uptake. This would effective bisect the island into a front part and rear part separated by boiler room air intake shafts and boiler room smoke uptake trucks. There would mean there is actually no internal space which connects the front part of island, where bridge and Prifly is, with the space on the back of the island where there is currently no windows but many CG depictions seem to insist there would be.

A large working space in the back of the island that is not connected to the rest of the island, and would demand its occupants walk down to flight deck level, exit the island, walk forward, then re-enter the island to access related working space seems an implausible design.

This strengthens my believe the area at the back of the island where CG insist on continuing to depict windows is actually not intended to be a routinely occupied space. There will not be windows there.
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they won't even need to go between those spaces, although there may be a passageway on the port side. On the USN & French CV/Ns, the bridge & flight deck operations r conducted/monitored & directed from different levels on the same island.
I counted 28 fighters on the pics above; any idea of the max. sortie generation rate?
 
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According to the report the length of 003 is 318m, based on that I measured the following:

Length: 318m
Width at midpoint: 74.8m
Width at widest point: 78.1m
Elevator length: 20m
Island length: 41.8m
 
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Kejora said:
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De acordo com o relatório, o comprimento de 003 é 318m, com base no que medi o seguinte:

Comprimento: 318m
Largura no ponto médio: 74,8 m
Largura no ponto mais largo: 78,1 m
Comprimento do elevador: 20m
Comprimento da ilha: 41,8 m
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The report speaks approximately 318 meters, I don't believe in any measurements smaller than 320 meters for the 003. I made the estimate based on the dock width of 82 meters.
 
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Richard Santos said:
The long protruding bulbous forefoot similar to those on the last few members of the Nimitz class is AFAIK unevidenced by any photograph. The best photo seem to show a modest, possibly sonar bearing, bulb similar to those on Kuznetsov and Liaoning.

Also, the active roll stabilizer in front and behind the bilge keels seems to be conjectural, as is the shape of the propellers
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We've been over this


003 has a bulbous bow.
See the second picture in particular.
I'm not sure why this is still a topic of debate for you.
It's not like a bulbous bow is particularly advanced technology anyhow, and virtually all major PLAN ship types in recent years have bulbous bows, including 075 and 002.


CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

This is the PriFly: I doubt it. If the air officers on the Chinese carrier has responsibility for aircraft in the air near the carrier, then he will need a view of the final approach path to the angled landing deck. From that location, the view of the approach is blocked by the island.
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